Fabrication and cold test of photonic band gap resonators and accelerator structures

We present the detailed description of the successful design and cold test of photonic band gap (PBG) resonators and traveling-wave accelerator structures. Those tests provided the essential basis for later hot test demonstration of the first PBG accelerator structure at 17.140 GHz [ E. I. Smirnova, A. S. Kesar, I. Mastovsky, M. A. Shapiro and R. J. Temkin Phys. Rev. Lett. 95 074801 (2005)]. The advantage of PBG resonators is that they were built to support only the main, TM₀₁-like, accelerator mode while not confining the higher-order modes (HOM) or wakefields. The design of the PBG resonators was based on a triangular lattice of rods, with a missing rod at the center. Following theoretical analysis, the rod radius divided by the rod spacing was held to a value of about 0.15 to avoid supporting HOM. For a single-cell test the PBG structure was fabricated in X-band (11 GHz) and brazed. The mode spectrum and Q factor (Q=5 000) agreed well with theory. Excellent HOM suppression was evident from the cold test. A six-cell copper PBG accelerator traveling-wave structure with reduced long-range wakefields was designed and was built by electroforming at Ku-band (17.140 GHz). The structure was tuned by etching the rods. Cold test of the structure yielded excellent agreement with the theoretical design. Successful results of the hot test of the structure demonstrating the acceleration of the electron beam were published in E. I. Smirnova, A. S. Kesar, I. Mastovsky, M. A. Shapiro and R. J. Temkin Phys. Rev. Lett. 95 074801 (2005)